Sharing an Apple by Tom Ryan

"When Tom Ryan paints a cowboy, you know it is the real thing,” says one fellow artist. “You can tell just by looking at the figure that that man has been around. His horses are real cow horses. His men are real ranch hands. They always have just the right feel; there is never anything in the painting that does not fit the scene exactly. He may not have grown up in the West around ranches and cattle, but he captures them better than anyone else." -Cowboy Artists of America